What's with the Gnome Hate?

[TarionzCousin]

Some ladies love the gnomes.

 

[Nifft]

The symbol of oppression becomes a stain and an albatross for the white man to bare. Removing it is the casting off of responsibility.

When I bare my gnome, it's not men who get stained.

Cheers, -- N

 

[Twiggly the Gnome]

Now, if they had made gnomes cool.. I mean, look at the cool look Paizo's gnome iconic has:

*meh* I've been thoroughly unimpressed with the Pathfinder take on gnomes. It's like they took every misstep the 3.5 core team took with the race and cranked it up to 11.

Now this is a cool looking gnome:

 

[Ruin Explorer]

Now this is a cool looking gnome:

No, it's a moderately cool-looking human with slightly odd proportions or perhaps out-of-scale. There is absolutely nothing gnomish about it. Unless it was labelled "gnome" or in a chapter about gnomes, you wouldn't even guess. It could equally-well be a halfling, too.

This is precisely the problem. Gnome and halfling lovers all seem to hate any depiction of their beloved races which gives them any character whatsoever beyond "short human". Paizo's gnome is at least bizarre enough that you think "Wth is that?" and probably figure out gnome.

 

[AllisterH]

No, it's a moderately cool-looking human with slightly odd proportions or perhaps out-of-scale. There is absolutely nothing gnomish about it. Unless it was labelled "gnome" or in a chapter about gnomes, you wouldn't even guess. It could equally-well be a halfling, too.

This is precisely the problem. Gnome and halfling lovers all seem to hate any depiction of their beloved races which gives them any character whatsoever beyond "short human". Paizo's gnome is at least bizarre enough that you think "Wth is that?" and probably figure out gnome.

Eh, I honestly thought that Paizo picture was a halfling.

 

[Twiggly the Gnome]

Paizo's gnome is at least bizarre enough that you think "Wth is that?" and probably figure out gnome.

No, I wondered why Paizo was making Nixies into a PC race.

But really, the look was only the tip of of the iceberg for me. I'm just not interested in a "gnome" whose culture revolves around schizophrenia, bestiality, and minstrel shows. Come March, and the release of PH2, it will be 4E for me.

 

[Mr. Wilson]

Eberron "finally" gave gnomes an identity (which is kinda amusing since a DM had been running them close to that way in a campaign I was in at the time ECS came out), and it's a good one.

Still, every time I see a gnome in any other setting, especially pink pony-tailed gnomes, I want to punt them.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

No, I wondered why Paizo was making Nixies into a PC race.

But really, the look was only the tip of of the iceberg for me. I'm just not interested in a "gnome" whose culture revolves around schizophrenia, bestiality, and minstrel shows. Come March, and the release of PH2, it will be 4E for me.

Could someone copy and paste the relevant portions of the alpha document about gnome culture and lore?

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Some ladies love the gnomes.

I never thought that picture from my college days would resurface.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Gnome and halfling lovers all seem to hate any depiction of their beloved races which gives them any character whatsoever beyond "short human".

We do?

My gnome illusionist/bard/gnome paragon wears lederhosen. He's got character coming out his ears.

He also has a very sexy old school nose.